plant disease vs mosaic

mosaic vs plant disease

plant disease and mosaic both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
plant disease	Yes	No	No	No
mosaic	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, mosaic is a hyponym of plant disease; that is, mosaic is a word with a more specific, narrower meaning than plant disease:

plant disease: a disease that affects plants
mosaic: viral disease in solanaceous plants (tomatoes, potatoes, tobacco) resulting in mottling and often shriveling of the leaves

Other hyponyms of plant disease include blight, leaf disease, rust, blackheart, black knot, black rot, black spot, bottom rot, brown rot, gummosis, canker, cotton ball, crown gall, crown wart, damping off, dieback, dry rot, heartrot, rhizoctinia disease, pink disease, potato wart, root rot, scorch, sweet-potato ring rot, sclerotium disease, sclerotium rot, Dutch elm disease, ergot, foot rot, pinkroot, wilt, wilt disease, smut, soft rot, yellow dwarf, yellow spot.

plant disease (noun)	mosaic (noun)
a disease that affects plants	art consisting of a design made of small pieces of colored stone or glass
	arrangement of aerial photographs forming a composite picture
	transducer formed by the light-sensitive surface on a television camera tube
	a pattern resembling a mosaic
	viral disease in solanaceous plants (tomatoes, potatoes, tobacco) resulting in mottling and often shriveling of the leaves

Difference between plant disease and mosaic

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